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... with NYRB titles? Did you use the reading group guides? Which titles worked well?
I am thinking we would start with The Invention of Morel and go from there.
... to get round to reading The Island of Dr Moreau...
Anyone who's read it recently might find a book I read recently, The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares interesting - it sounds as though it's nothing like as scary, but I do know that it was heavily influenced by The Island ...
... about the fact that the 3rd book in the trilogy isn't out yet - and I've not read the 2nd one yet...
85) The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares
999 Category 7 - Prize winners (First Municipal Prize for Literature of the City of Buenos Aires 1941) (8/9)
A man, ...
... to review)
84) The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness (Borrowed from Rachel/FlossieT - wow...)
85) The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares (random library book)
I promise to update soon!
The Invention of Morel by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. An interesting novella. The hero escaping from the police for a crime which may carry the death penalty arrives on a small island. At first uninhabited, the island soon becomes populated by persons who appear to be unaware of his ...
133. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. An interesting novella. The hero escaping from the police for a crime which may carry the death penalty arrives on a small island. At first uninhabited, the island soon becomes populated by persons who appear to be unaware of his existence. H ...
Argentina - The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Cesares.
United States - The Eleventh Hour byLynn Erickson.
United Kingdom - Egg Dancing by Liz Jensen.
... 1921
The Absolute at Large by Karel Capek -- Czechoslovakia 1922
Aelita by Alexei Tolstoy -- Russia 1923
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Argentina 1940
Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe -- Japan 1959
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem -- Poland 1961
Planet ...
SIX PROBLEMS looks terrific. It's just been added to my list. And I must get around to reading Casare's INVENTION OF MOREL too. That one's been on my shelves awhile...
That's a good piece--I have a number of those NYRB classics (included THE INVENTION OF MOREL and THE GONCOURT BROTHERS JOURNAL), one of those Crimethinc books...and, of course, Dalkey Archive is a fine press.
The small presses (including, as we mentioned on another thread, PS Publishing in En ...
... and Selected Poems. I intend to add Seven Nights, Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, Borges: A Life and perhaps The Invention of Morel and some Argentine history like Felix Luna's A Short History of the Argentine. If anyone has any recommendations for books in English about Argenti ...
... lot of works worth mentioning, but in particular The Aleph, Ficciones, and Brodie's Report.
Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel
Roberto Arlt's The Seven Madmen and Los Lanzallamas (not in translation)
Julio Cortazar's short story collections, especially the early ...
... get people to read certain books have not fared too well - except with one friend. I might be able to convince her to read The Invention of Morel since she could read it in the original language. Also, The Facts of Winter looks pretty interesting - I'll have to keep an eye out for that one.
... ended up reading three others by Moravia and have another Zweig on the TBR pile. Besides those, my favorites were probably The Invention of Morel and The Fountain Overflows
Chrisharpe, thanks for the suggestions (post 6). The Invention of Morel and How I Became a Nun are both in my library. They don't have Investigation, but they do have another short novel by the same author called The Event. No Tunnel or Ernesto Sabat though. I hope I can find some time to ...
...
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Count D'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
Boredom by Alberto Moravia
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
The Fountain Overfl ...
>6. Nickelini, for a short read, you might do worse than The Tunnel,The Invention of Morel or The Investigation, all of which are available in English. I haven't read How I Became a Nun (it might be my March read) but it's short too, as are the original compilations of Borges and Cortázar.
...
... Save Twilight: Selected Poems
Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths, This Craft of Verse
Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel , Asleep in the Sun
Ernesto Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries
Books I have but haven't read yet:
Julio Cortázar: Los premios, ...
... 333 read I hope I can be forgiven a top 30:
Eugénie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père
Mill on the Floss by George El ...
Just finished The Invention of Morel by Adofo Bioy Casares, and started 2666 by Roberto Bolano.
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
White Walls by Tatyana Tolstaya
Uncle by J. P. Martin
Selected Stories by Robert Walser
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
The Postoffice Girl by Stefan Zweig
... UN-nudge)
3 - The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
3 - The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
2 - The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
2 - Tomorrow by Graham Swift
-1 - Frida's Bed by Slavenka Drakulic (UN-nudged)
-2 - The Mysterious Flame ...
... – Robert Walser (Switzerland)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami (Japan)
The Invention of Morel –Adolfo Bioy Casares (Argentina)
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald (Germany)
... of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis, The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk? I have not read all of these, but received nudges of one kind or another for ...
... here, but of those I have, I nudge Notes from Underground, The Turn of the Screw (I haven't read The Aspern Papers) and The Invention of Morel . Bioy Casares was a close associate of Borges and his reputation tends to suffer by comparison, but he was a fine writer on his own terms. Also, ...
For the classics, I'd recommend The Picture of Dorian Gray. For the fiction, The Invention of Morel .
...
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Tomorrow by Graham Swift
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Alice's Adventures in Wond ...
Perhaps The Invention of Morel ? It was discussed a bit in an NYRB thread .
... reland)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (Australia)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Argentina)
Palace Walk by Najib Mahfuz (Egypt)
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh (India)
Mosquito by Roma ...
Indirectly, there's the fantastic Last Year In Marienbad, inspired by The Invention Of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
I finished The Invention of Morel , which was very good, and am now reading The Big Clock.
Finished The Ten Thousand Things and am starting The Invention of Morel . It's a bit funny - both of these books and another one that I read recently, The Summer Book prominently feature islands.
... of Our Time by Lermontov
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by A. Brönte
Honorable Mention: All the Pretty Horses, The Invention of Morel , Post Office, Steppenwolf, The Wild Geese/Gan
Disappointments:
Disgrace by Coetzee
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
The Secret Agent ...
... The Summer Book.
4 - would you recommend avoiding Asleep in the Sun, or is it worth reading, just not as good as The Invention of Morel ?
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
I liked it--I think the plot and writing style were very fluid. I never really "got" the fugitive, never fully understood his motivations or identified with him, but that may have been a casualty of the ...
46. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
I bought myself 20 NYRB Classics the other day as a treat, and this slim volume was one of them. I liked it. I think the plot and writing style were very fluid. I never really "got" the fugitive, never ...
I liked The Invention of Morel --I think the plot and writing style were very fluid. I never really "got" the fugitive, never fully understood his motivations or identified with him, but that may have been a casualty of the translation (language or culture). Nevertheless, I found it completely ...
I'm about to start The Invention of Morel tonight. Has anyone else read this?
The postman delivered these today:-
The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares
High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
Whistling for the Elephants - Sandi Toksvig
... y
Pedro Páramo or The Burning Plain (short enough that they are usually published as one book): Rulfo, Mexico
Morel's Invention : Bioy Casares, Argentina
Enjoy!
I'll echo the suggestion of Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention Of Morel . A fantastic little work.
... my selections to:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père
2. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
3. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Honorable Mentions: A Clockwork Orange, Post Office, and Two on a Tower
... the novels that just scrape through are Roberto Arlt's The Seven Madmen (Argentina, 1929), Adolfo Bioy Casares The Invention of Morel (Argentina, 1940), Ernesto Sábato's The Tunnel (Argentina, 1948), Miguel Angel Asturias's Men of Maize (Guatemala, 1949), Alejo Carpent ...
The Invention of Morel ****½
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
04/27/08
This is a fantastic little novella; I don't remeber how I came across it but I'm trilled I did.
... the same duty for my Victorians. The Man Who Was Thursday fits into my 1001 catch-all category and the spanish language The Invention of Morel leaves me three other languages left to represent in my reading this year.
... House of the Dead ***½
3. Sweden - Doctor Glas ***½
4. Netherlands - The Following Story ***½
5. Argentina - The Invention of Morel ****
6. Turkey - Snow ****
7. Japan - {5/5}
~ a. Norwegian Wood ****
~ b. The Wild Geese ****½
~ c. The Master of Go ****
~ d. The Tem ...
12. La invencion de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
This novella is full of anguish. The last thirty pages and the end are quite interesting and suggestive. Very curious take on science fiction.
5. La Invencion de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares - finished 9/30/07
Intriguing novella about a fugitive who finds his way to a deserted island on which a small complex has been built. Then he finds out the island may not be as deserted as he thought. The narrator is fascinated with Malthus ...
... (e.g. Todos los fuegos el fuego), Manuel Puig (especially El beso de la mujer araña), Adolfo Bioy Casares (La invención de Morel ) and Juan Jose Saer (e.g. La pesquisa). All these give an insight into aspects of national and regional culture.
Happy travels!
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